Welcome to my piece of the Web. I maintain quite a lot of open-source software, FAQs,
and HTML documents, so this site is rather complex. It's mostly
validated HTML and light on the graphics, though. You won't have to
wait an eon for any of the pages to load.

If the software and FAQs I maintain are valuable to you (and especially
if my software makes you money) please leave me a tip.

Using this site

If you want to link to, copy, mirror, or translate portions of this
site, please read my copying policy.

If the HTML or images on this site seem
to be confusing your browser, see the site
design notes.

Frequently-Asked Questions

If you're looking for the Halloween Documents, they're here. Having studied the history of other
advocacy organizations, I specifically designed OSI not to be a
founder-centered cult of personality; I think OSI's decision to move
them off the OSI website was a mistake, but our community is healthier
because they had the power to make that mistake.

It's all about freedom...

You can fetch my GPG public key here. I support
widespread use of strong cryptography for privacy, and encourage
you to use GPG encryption with this key when sending me messages.
If your mailer makes this difficult, consider switching to Mutt.

As a public service and act of civil disobedience, we are proud
to offer the DeCSS code that will
allow you to circumvent the encryption on the DVDs you own. Your
DVD, your hardware, your choice! (Please do not ask me technical
questions about this code; I have never used it.)

Also, here is the decryption key used for most HD-DVD movies:

09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

I have never used this, either, I'm publishing it here because the
MPAA is attempting to suppress public knowledge of it.

Finally, the HDCP master key. These
magic bits defeat the HDCP scrambling that attempt to prevent you from
viewing high-definition video on the hardware of your choice. (No,
I've never used this either.)

I will not tolerate having general-purpose computing hardware,
which should be an instrument of liberation and creativity, reduced to
a locked-down delivery pipe for "content". By trying to cripple my
tools, the big-media machine has made me its enemy. DRM delenda est!

...and it's all about me.

You can read all about my projects,
past present and future, including the software and FAQs and Web
resources I maintain.

I do consulting under the Thyrsus Enterprises
service mark. You can surf to my resume
from here, if you're interested in my career or qualifications. I'm
not in the market for a job just now, though, unless you can offer
a project that really fascinates me.

You can read personal stuff about my
life and politics and hobbies and friends. You may also find my writings of interest.